Duke falls at home to Stephen F. Austin on buzzer-beating layup
For the first time since January 5, 1983, Duke's basketball team lost a home game to an unranked non-Power Conference foe. Stephen F. Austin's Nathan Bain converted a layup at the overtime buzzer to stun No. 1 Duke 85-83 Tuesday night at Cameron Indoor Stadium. College basketball is madness this season. Duke became the third No. 1 team to lose this season, seeing its 150-game non conference home winning streak snapped by Stephen F. Austin senior forward Nathan Bain's coast-to-coast layup at the overtime buzzer. The Blue Devils entered the game as 27.5-point favorites, making the Lumberjacks' win the biggest Division I upset of the past 15 seasons. Duke took a 15-point first-half lead, but SFA which had just lost to Rutgers and finished below 500 last season came all the way back in the second half to take the lead in the final minutes. The game went into OT when Duke's Cassius Stanley missed a contested midrange jumper at the buzzer. Tre Jones penetrated a...

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